The trees may have been in the vicinity of Lake Nemi, which Wilson is known to have visited at this time

Exhibited

London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (53); Sudbury 1991 (7)

Provenance

Purchased in the 1970s

Signature/inscription

Inscribed in a modern hand, lower right: WilsonTwo illegible words lower left

Techniques and materials

Collectors' marks

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Inscription by a different old hand lower centre: Gainsborough

Labels

Subject

The area round Lake Nemi was famous for its trees

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Related Drawings

D245 'Arbra Santa' on the Banks of Lake Nemi (Study of an Ancient Tree), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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Critical commentary

As Solkin has noted, this is one of Wilson's most sensitive studies of trees. Wilson had made considerable progress in his command of the chalk medium by the time he left Italy. It was only towards the end of his stay that he was able to handle this chosen technique with such subtlety and refinement.